With raptors, unlike some birds, their risk factors for death don’t diminish much once they leave the nest. The danger really just starts. They must learn to hunt and navigate any number of hazards. One of my neighbors, a male broad winged hawk of about 7 weeks...

This past winter, we spent some weeks trying to pin down the location of a bobcat den in our back forest. It was an exhilarating chase that I likened to a game of Battleship, where we would place game cameras in the forest at some locations based on educated guesses,...

It has now been more than a week since we last saw the Cooper’s hawk fledglings. Weather intervened, taking a few days off of our camera regimen, and then the loon project stole our attention. But five days ago, three days ago and again today, I took a camera...

With the Forest Metrix cameras trained on the loon nest and its environs, we get to see the foggy transformation from night to day and couldn’t resist processing the images into a timelapse. Note the lily pad flowers at the bottom of the screen opening up at the...

In a lake near Forest Metrix’s offices, a pair of loons started nesting for the first time in a number of years. They didn’t pick a particularly good location, it seems, putting their eggs a couple inches above a mud bar formed at the mouth of a creek....